cve-2021-42697
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-02 21:44
Modified
2024-08-04 03:38
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Akka HTTP 10.1.x before 10.1.15 and 10.2.x before 10.2.7 can encounter stack exhaustion while parsing HTTP headers, which allows a remote attacker to conduct a Denial of Service attack by sending a User-Agent header with deeply nested comments.
References
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